GoPIG Minutes
Oct 5, 2001
Colorado School of Mines
In attendance: Chris Brown (DU), Lisa Nickum (CSM), Sharon Partridge (JCPL),
Mark Anderson (UNC), Dianne Koshak (Adams State), Yolanda Maloney (CU),
Louise Treff-Gangler (Auraria), Fred Schmidt (CSU), Carol Perkins (DU Law),
Ignacio Ferrer (DU Law), Tim Byrne (CU) presiding.
1&5. Lisa gave us a brief tour of the Mines Documents and Maps sections and
we went to a computer lab for a demo of Energy Citations.
www.osti.gov/energycitations . This
new database includes the information from the Atomic Energy Commission, the
Energy Research Development Administration and the Department of Energy from
1948 to present. It also includes many non-governmental sources such as
journal articles from all over the world. Note that the search link is way
at the top of the site. Clicking on the icons will just give you
information about the agencies. It is slow but Tim was able to use it on a
search for Rocky Flats to find documents that CU hadn't known it owned.
Advanced search gives you some date limiters and the ability to search
specific
fields. We also looked at EnergyFiles ,
the
Virtual Library of Energy Science and Technology containing over 500
databases
and Web sites containing information and resources pertaining to energy
science
and technology, with an emphasis on the physical sciences. It
includes some surprise databases such as the NOAA Photographic Collection
and Geologic Maps.
2. Chris announced that he has added catalog records to Prospector for the
Hart-Rudman reports.
3. Minutes of Sept. 7, 2001 had not be distributed.
4. Nov. 9 at the new Broomfield Public Library 10:00-1:00
Dec. 7 JCPL
Jan. 11 CU
Tim will invite the State Archivist, Terry Ketelsen, to a future
meeting.
6. Before we talked about the Right to Know, Tim passed around screen
captures for some fairly obscure agencies that have become very important.
The President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection published
"Critical foundations : protecting America's infrastructures" (PR 42.8:IN
3/C
86). The website is . Among the publications
available is "Common Defense Against Uncommon Threats: The Federal Role in
Critical Infrastructure Protection." The Critical Infrastructures Assurance
Office has published "Practices for securing critical information assets
(PR 42.8:IN 3/C 86/2). The Critical Infrastructures Assurance Office
website
is . Overseas Security Advisory Council site is at
www.ds-osac.org . It includes travel warnings and
cyber threat. is the website for the National
Infrastructure Protection Center. It includes a publication called "Cyber
Notes". Its mission is to support security and information system
professionals with timely information on cyber vulnerabilities, malicious
scripts, information security trends, virus information, and other critical
infrastructure-related best practices. The latest issue includes a chart
of computer systems, their vulnerabilities and available "cures." Tim has
sent these sites to GPO to be cataloged. Tim also shared a term he'd run
into, "DDoS" (which works fine as a search term) which stands for
Distributed
Denial of Services, i.e. server sabotage or disruption of telecommunication
networks.
Back to Right to Know... there is a report from OMB called A Post-September
11 Attack on Right-to-Know at
. Tim said that he
uses the Air Force definition of "Information Warfare: any action to deny,
exploit, corrupt, or destroy the enemy's information and its functions;
protecting ourselves against those actions; and exploiting our own military
information functions. Information warfare is any attack against an
information function, regardless of the means. Bombing a telephone switching
facility is information warfare. So is destroying the switching facility's
software. . Tim stressed the added
importance of the concept of distributed data and FDLP's function as a
safety net. He said George Barnam has expressed some support for Tim's
idea.
This led to a discussion about the attack on the EPA site information about
toxic chemicals. Tim pointed out that many of the same companies that have
fought against making the information public for free have used this
opportunity to shut it down. Tim pointed out that the information is widely
available from other sources. He suggested we read an article called
Agencies Scrub Web Sites Of Sensitive Chemical Data at
8. Discard lists are seriously backed up and Tim estimates that he has over
200 in the pipeline. He reminded everyone that it is better to send many
short lists than one long one but he prefers to have logical splits when
possible. In other words, make a longer list if everything on the list is
an HE 20.3202:. He said it is fine to send lists that include ranges of
items and we could list things such as the Labor Department's news (made up)
as L1.2: 123,125,127,131,142, etc without each title. We decided to hold a
moratorium on sending offers lists until Jan. 1, just to give CU the
psychological boost that they are making progress. Tim pointed out that
many times he can fill gaps from the lists and that DPL has many fewer gaps
since theirs is a (mostly) closed collection.
It should be noted that CU has a fiche-to fiche copier and CSU is very
happy with it's fiche-to-printer or fiche-to-email scanner.
10. Lisa had questions on how the other libraries are figuring growth needs
for their shelving, fiche cabinets, etc. We talked about having a stable
collection and the perceptions that can cause. It was pointed out that even
if we are not expanding, we are replacing older information with newer
information. Tim wrote a satiric email about getting rid of all the
electronic access to boost circulation. That email is making the rounds so
we might see it sometime.
Louise urged us to consider nominees to GODORT for the Depository
Library Council. There will be a message soon about an on-line nominating
form. GPO picks up the transportation costs for members of the Federal
Depository Library Council to attend the twice yearly meetings.
There are not retention requirements for Colorado state publications.
11. Significant Events
Adams State - Dianne is doing a presentation to 30 non-documents librarian
about caring for special collections and asked for ideas to include.
DU Law - The new serials module from III is up and it needs more memory than
the old module. They have also learned there will be less space in their
new building so they will be doing massive weeding but even they are
respecting the moratorium on discard lists (you can too).
Auraria - Interviewing for a new Assistant Director so Louise should be able
to give up those duties that she's held on a temporary basis. They are
getting ready to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the library.
DU - They are happy with the support staff situation and making good
progress on retrospective cataloging of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
This is the first step in deciding what they need from the collection they
received. Chris is going to Japan again. He works with Japanese libraries
who are also UN Centre for Regional Development depositories.
Mines - Lisa has lost her 7th tech in 8 years and is beginning to feel
paranoid. She interviews again next week. They have a new library position
for a Public Services Librarian to supervise the circulation and ILL
departments.
JCPL - The Colorado Preservation Alliance has received the library of the
defunct Rocky Mountain Conservation Center and will be adding parts of it to
the Myra Jo Moon Collection. Sharon reminded people that access to that
collection is available through the JCPL catalog using the subject "Myra Jo
Moon."
Greeley - The library is now wireless and students can check out laptops at
the circulation desk to use in the library. Mark says he was told it would
be slower but hasn't been able to notice. Lisa Blankenship is the new head
of reference. Mark is now the bibliographer responsible for the history of
political science section and also serving time at the regular reference
desk.
CSU - Still working on retrospective cataloging but it is very slow. The
librarians are teaching many units of library classes. Fred said the
library is packed with students.
CU Engineering - Yolanda has noticed less students coming in particularly
now that their standards indices are online. The have complete ASTM, IEEE
and ANSI access and many of the actual standards are available in the
library.
CU has finished cataloging ALL of their hearings and now has 1833 to current
in their catalog. This includes microfiche and paper.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:30
"It's a resource problem",
Sharon Partridge, secretary
Sharon M. Partridge
Documents Librarian
Jefferson County Public Library
10200 W. 20th Ave.
Lakewood, CO 80215
(303) 232-9507
sharonp@jefferson.lib.co.us
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